25.07.2024: Our paper is accepted by ACM MM 2024 as Oral!
Introduction
Audio-visual semantic segmentation (AVSS) aims to segment and classify sounding objects in videos with acoustic cues. However, most approaches operate on the close-set assumption and only identify pre-defined categories from training data, lacking the generalization ability to detect novel categories in practical applications. In this paper, we introduce a new task: open-vocabulary audio-visual semantic segmentation, extending AVSS task to open-world scenarios beyond the annotated label space. This is a more challenging task that requires recognizing all categories, even those that have never been seen nor heard during training. Moreover, we propose the first open-vocabulary AVSS framework, OV-AVSS, which mainly consists of two parts: 1) a universal sound source localization module to perform audio-visual fusion and locate all potential sounding objects and 2) an open-vocabulary classification module to predict categories with the help of the prior knowledge from large-scale pre-trained vision-language models. To properly evaluate the open-vocabulary AVSS, we split zero-shot training and testing subsets based on the AVSBench-semantic benchmark, namely AVSBench-OV. Extensive experiments demonstrate the strong segmentation and zero-shot generalization ability of our model on all categories. On the AVSBench-OV dataset, OV-AVSS achieves 55.43% mIoU on base categories and 29.14% mIoU on novel categories, exceeding the state-of-the-art zero-shot method by 41.88%/20.61% and open-vocabulary method by 10.2%/11.6%.
cd demo_video
python test_net_video_avsbench_swinb.py
Note: The results tested on Example 1 and Example 2 have a slight performance difference.
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Citation
Please consider citing our paper in your publications if the project helps your research. BibTeX reference is as follow.
@article{guo2024open,
title={Open-Vocabulary Audio-Visual Semantic Segmentation},
author={Guo, Ruohao and Qu, Liao and Niu, Dantong and Qi, Yanyu and Yue, Wenzhen and Shi, Ji and Xing, Bowei and Ying, Xianghua},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.21721},
year={2024}
}